When FBI agents pulled up to Alberto Carvalho’s San Pedro home on the morning of Feb. 25, they brought search warrants, black SUVs and no explanation. They searched the house and LAUSD headquarters downtown, then left without saying what they were after. The warrants stayed sealed. Two days later the school board placed the superintendent on paid leave and handed the nation’s second largest district to a 28-year veteran, Andres Chait, who inherited an $877 million budget gap and a community full of questions.
This package follows that week from the raid forward. It covers what agents did and did not disclose, the board’s decision to step Carvalho aside, and the leadership Chait now carries into looming layoffs and stalled union talks. It also weighs the question no one in an official capacity will touch. Is this a legitimate federal investigation, or is the Trump administration aiming its fight with California at the man who runs its biggest schools? The honest answer, for now, is that nobody outside the bureau knows.
THE LATEST: Carvalho has not been charged. He has not spoken. This is the record as it stands:
